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Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

— Alvar Aalto

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

— Zaha Hadid

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

— Jean Nouvel

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

— Jesse James Garrett

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

— Bjarke Ingels

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

— Helmut Jahn

The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.

— Walter Gropius

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

— Arne Jacobsen

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

— Thomas Heatherwick

✗Opposing Perspectives

I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe